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Get Privilege For User

Description

This operation returns the privilege associated with a user. The API tests all the rules to which the user belongs and returns the highest possible privilege.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails
username

The name of the user for whom the privilege needs to be computed.

Example

username=njones
f

The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json| pjson

Example usage

Below is a sample POST request for getPrivilege:


POST /webadaptor/admin/security/users/getPrivilege HTTP/1.1
Host: machine.domain.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

username=njones&f=json

JSON Response syntax


{
  "privilege": "<ADMINISTER|PUBLISH|ACCESS>"
}

JSON Response example


{
  "privilege": "ADMINISTER"
}